To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.